The men convicted of raping and torturing a medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 will hang, the Supreme Court ruled today, confirming its earlier decision and rejecting the request of three of four convicts for their sentence to be reduced to a life term.

A teenage girl in Nuh district of Haryana committed suicide on Monday after she was allegedly gang-raped by eight men belonging to her own village. All the eight have been identified and police are carrying out raids to arrest them.

The brutal gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district has put the restive state on edge. The investigation clearly has split the region along religious lines.

The Congress today demanded the dismissal of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, calling his government a "Ravan" regime which has failed to protect women, after an 18-year-old alleged she was gangraped and her father died in police custody in the states Unnao district.

A 60-year-old man was on Saturday beaten to death allegedly over filling water from a tank in northwest Delhi's Wazirpur. Police claimed that they have arrested three people and apprehended a juvenile in the case.

A 60-year-old man was beheaded in Bihar's Darbhanga over a property dispute, deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said today, denying that he was attacked because he had had named a town square "Narendra Modi chowk," as his family had alleged.

Shambulal Regar, the Rajasthan man jailed for hacking a Muslim labourer from West Bengal to death two months ago, has released two new incendiary videos from what appears to be his cell in Jodhpur?s central prison, raising question marks over the security apparatus.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday will hold a press conference on Wednesday after TV reports said a Class 11 student was detained in connection with the murder of a second grader at the Ryan International School in Gurgaon.

A 15-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria town fell off from the third floor of her school building and died on Monday. The girl's family has alleged that she was thrown off by someone and asked for a detailed investigation.

The Hyderabad police have said they suspect that a 25-year-old aspiring doctor has been killed by her software engineer husband for failing to get admission in an MBBS course. The man and his parents have been arrested.

The ghastly murder of seven-year-old Praduman has left several unanswered questions, especially after police found the toilet where he was killed had three windows with no grills. Police are now probing whether someone else committed the crime and used one of the windows to escape.

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a youth leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in north Bihar's Siwan district in the wee hours of Saturday, three days after a JD(U)-BJP government assumed charge in the state.

A doctor who was abducted from east Delhi's Preet Vihar area was rescued from Meerut by the police after a shootout with the kidnappers. Four men have been arrested in this connection, the police said.

A 17-year-old schoolboy and an 18-year-old girl pursuing an MBBS degree were found hanging on Friday evening from a ceiling fan in a hotel room in Dwarka, south-west Delhi, that they had booked on the OYO app.